Upgraded Winter Pages…

So as promised here is a picture of the pages we created at Scrapbook Night last night.

So, as usual, my pictures never do anything justice.  Someday I'll get a light box!

But these pages have a great vintage feel to them.  The colors are Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, and Chocolate Chip.

I love, love, love the 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbons these days and I LOVE fraying it!  The frayed edges just add to a fabulously vintage feel.

And of course the shimmer paints are favorites of mine.  I used silver shimmer paint on the edges of the snowflakes and the Decorative Label punch (from the Occasions mini).

The edges of the pages have snowflakes stamped in Chocolate Chip and Craft Whisper White ink on the edges of the textured Baja Breeze card stock.  I frayed the edges of the striped ribbon and added some glimmer brads and Crochet Trim ribbon as well.

You may be wondering why the title of this post?  Well, remember the kids winter pages?  Those were great pages and I used them as inspiration for these pages but was able to add the fun snowflake embellishment, shimmer paint, the snowflakes from the Big Shot, fraying the ribbon, the glimmer brads, and Crochet trim ribbon.  Hope you all enjoy adding your pictures to these layouts!

Sale A Bration Punch Bunch

So most of my customers know I'm not opposed to cutting out my stamped images (in fact I quite enjoy it!) but I know there are LOTS and LOTS of you who do not like to cut!  So this is one of those stamp sets made just for you!

Introducing Punch Bunch…a stamp set that you can for FREE… where each image has a coordinating punch!  Now maybe you already have all the punhes (yeah you!) but if you don't here's your chance to get some punches and a free set.  Perfect, right?  Well, let's figure it out…

(The images above are shown smaller than the true stamps.)

So "whooo" doesn't love owls right now?  They are seriously everywhere!  (Check out these links if you don't believe me!  Target  Zazzle  Kids Clothing  I actually couldn't believe everything I found!  From ipad and itouch covers to mouse pads to clothes and much, much more!)

So anyway… my point is they are trend on right now!  We have an adorable owl punch and now this great owl stamp to go with it!  A versatile 'for you' stamp image goes with our scallop circle punch (a must have for all stampers).  A circle punch is an essential tool for any papercrafter and the tag punch is super fun!

So…

owl punch   $16.95
1 3/4" scallop circle punch  $16.95
1" circle punch   $10.95
Large Tag punch  $16.95
Scallop square punch $16.95

So, add two of the $16.95 punches together, add a package of cardstock and you'll get the stamp set for free!  You choose your combination of ANY products from the current catalogs and earn this set (or other items) for FREE!  Really, who doesn't like FREE?

Here are some photos of samples from the display boards at Leadership all using the Punch Bunch Stamp set….

If you have any questions about the samples above please don't hesitate to contact me! 

Sneak Peek for My Scrapbook Club

My Scrapbook Club meets this Monday night.  We talked last time about doing a winter page so I decided to use the pages I did for my young girls as inspiration.  Of course I am able to spice it up a bit for my adult stampers not only because they're adults, but because they obviously have a love for stamping (or they wouldn't be in my club, right?!) and there are 8 of them (versus 16 young girls!).

So… here are the upgrades. After the club meets I'll show you the completed pages.

Some Scrapbooking…

Here's some more stamping I did in December!  (See, I was just too busy to post!  Sorry! But aren't you glad to see them now?  Maybe? hehe)

Anyway, you may have seen that I stamp with 16 girls ages 5-8 years old each month.  They create a 2 page layout each month and when we are finished they will have a 20 page scrapbook!  Well for December we focused on winter (we had already done Christmas in November!).  The layout was inspired by a project I saw in our monthly Stampin' Up! demonstrator magazine.   (I know I've mentioned these publications before – I really do love them!  They provide oodles and oodles of inspiration!  So, first, here's the project that inspired me.  (Created by Carol Gensweider of Pflugerville, Texas)

Isn't that pretty?  I thought so!  But clearly it's not a scrapbook page… Here's what I came up with for the girls (ages 5-8).

So, as you might be able to tell, I copied the stamping of the trees with Night of Navy ink and Whisper White craft ink from Carol's card.  The girls then stamped snowflakes on the Baja Breeze card stock edges.

They then stamped various titles like "Skiing Fun" and "Skating Fun" to make the page their own in Night of Navy ink.

Other supplies used:

Card Stock: Night of Navy, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Night of Navy 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon, felt snowflakes (retired), and basic jewel rhinestones (in the center of the snowflakes).

Hope you like them!  The girls and their moms did which always makes me smile BIG!

Halloween Pages for Kay’s girls

You may have seen me mention that I'm doing scrapbooking classes every month for 16 girls ages 5-8.  Yes, 16!  It's a lot but they are a lot of fun and doing really well!  Here is the layout we made last time:

The ghosts were made with the infamous Owl Punch and some googlie eyes.  The girls wheeled the Haunting Hill jumbo wheel and then colored it in with regular crayons.  The green card stock along the bottom of the pages will serve as their journaling area.  The alphabet is one of my most favorite retired ones and I prepunched all the circles for them to stamp on and then the green layers as well.  Can you imagine how long that would've taken if they all punched their own circles!  LOL  They added a couple of bats and voila!  They were ready to add their Halloween pictures to their pages.

If you have a group of girls (young or young at heart!) who'd like to get together and scrapbook regularly please let me know!  I'd love to help you treasure your favorite memories.